Type designers are crazy people. Not crazy in the sense that they think we are Napoleon, but in the sense that the sky can be falling, wars tearing the world apart, disasters splitting the very ground we walk on, plagues circling continents to pick victims randomly, yet we will still perform our ever optimistic task of making some little spot of the world more appealing to the human eye. We ought to be proud of ourselves, I believe. Optimism is hard to come by these days. Regardless of our own personal reasons for doing what we do, the very thing we do is in itself an act of optimism and belief in the inherent beauty that exists within humanity. As recently as ten years ago, I wouldn't have been able to choose the amazing obscure profession I now have, wouldn't have been able to be humbled by the history that falls into my hands and slides in front of my eyes every day, wouldn't have been able to live and work across previously impenetrable cultural lines as I do now, and wouldn't have been able to raise my glass of Malbeck wine to toast every type designer who was before me, is with me, and will be after me. As recently as ten years ago, I wouldn't have been able to mean these words as I wrote them: It’s a small world. Yes, it is a small world, and a wonderfully complex one too. With so much information drowning our senses by the minute, it has become difficult to find clear meaning in almost anything. Something throughout the day is bound to make us feel even smaller in this small world. Most of us find comfort in a routine. Some of us find extended families. But in the end we are all Eleanor Rigbys, lonely on the inside and waiting for a miracle to come. If a miracle can make the world small, another one can perhaps give us meaning. And sometimes a miracle happens for a split second, then gets buried until a crazy type designer finds it. I was on my honeymoon in New York City when I first stumbled upon the letters that eventually started this Affair. A simple, content tourist walking down the streets formerly unknown to me except through pop music and film references. Browsing the shops of the city that made Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and a thousand other artists. Trying to chase away the tourist mentality, wondering what it would be like to actually live in the city of a billion tiny lights. Tourists don't go to libraries in foreign cities. So I walked into one. Two hours later I wasn't in New York anymore. I wasn't anywhere substantial. I was the crazy type designer at the apex of insanity. La La Land, alphabet heaven, curves and twirls and loops and swashes, ribbons and bows and naked letters. I'm probably not the very first person on this planet to be seduced into starting an Affair while on his honeymoon, but it is something to tease my better half about once in a while. To this day I can't decide if I actually found the worn book, or if the book itself called for me. Its spine was nothing special, sitting on a shelf, tightly flanked by similar spines on either side. Yet it was the only one I picked off that shelf. And I looked at only one page in it before walking to the photocopier and cheating it with an Argentine coin, since I didn't have the American quarter it wanted. That was the beginning. I am now writing this after the Affair is over. And it was an Affair to remember, to pull a phrase. Right now, long after I have drawn and digitized and tested this alphabet, and long after I saw what some of this generation’s type designers saw in it, I have the luxury to speculate on what Affair really is, what made me begin and finish it, what cultural expressions it has, and so on. But in all honesty it wasn't like that. Much like in my Ministry Script experience, I was a driven man, a lover walking the ledge, an infatuated student following the instructions of his teacher while seeing her as a perfect angel. I am not exaggerating when I say that the letters themselves told me how to extend them. I was exploited by an alphabet, and it felt great. Unlike my experience with Ministry Script, where the objective was to push the technology to its limits, this Affair felt like the most natural and casual sequence of processions in the world – my hand following the grid, the grid following what my hand had already done – a circle of creation contained in one square computer cell, then doing it all over again. By contrast, it was the lousiest feeling in the world when I finally reached the conclusion that the Affair was done. What would I do now? Would any commitment I make from now on constitute a betrayal of these past precious months? I'm largely over all that now, of course. I like to think I'm a better man now because of the experience. Affair is an enormous, intricately calligraphic OpenType font based on a 9x9 photocopy of a page from a 1950s lettering book. In any calligraphic font, the global parameters for developing the characters are usually quite volatile and hard to pin down, but in this case it was particularly difficult because the photocopy was too gray and the letters were of different sizes, very intertwined and scan-impossible. So finishing the first few characters in order to establish the global rhythm was quite a long process, after which the work became a unique soothing, numbing routine by which I will always remember this Affair. The result of all the work, at least to the eyes of this crazy designer, is 1950s American lettering with a very Argentine wrapper. My Affair is infused with the spirit of filete, dulce de leche, yerba mate, and Carlos Gardel. Upon finishing the font I was fortunate enough that a few of my colleagues, great type designers and probably much saner than I am, agreed to show me how they envision my Affair in action. The beauty they showed me makes me feel small and yearn for the world to be even smaller now – at least small enough so that my international colleagues and I can meet and exchange stories over a good parrilla. These people, whose kindness is very deserving of my gratitude, and whose beautiful art is very deserving of your appreciation, are in no particular order: Corey Holms, Mariano Lopez Hiriart, Xavier Dupré, Alejandro Ros, Rebecca Alaccari, Laura Meseguer, Neil Summerour, Eduardo Manso, and the Doma group. You can see how they envisioned using Affair in the section of this booklet entitled A Foreign Affair. The rest of this booklet contains all the obligatory technical details that should come with a font this massive. I hope this Affair can bring you as much peace and satisfaction as it brought me, and I hope it can help your imagination soar like mine did when I was doing my duty for beauty.

It was supposed to be brush-like, but it looks more like sponge. Have fun using it!

Thirsty Cream is my handmade and slightly curly font. I had birthday greeting cards, invitations and products for kids. But I guess that it is useful for a good handful of other things. While the lowercase has it's curly moments, the UPPERCASE is quite steady and super legible

This typeface was inspired by milk sherbet, which is enjoyed cold on a hot summer day. Rounded shapes and soft stroke endings make the typeface look cute. Heavy works great for headlines with its extra-heavy stroke weight and size, while Regular and Light are best for body text.

This unique font is influenced by the graffiti writing on the walls of Los Angeles. Raw and Uncut. This font can be used on web pages, banners, hats, shirts, advertising. Perfect for all streetwear brands, music groups, and whoever else looking for that raw Los Angeles street style.

Inspired by many Blackletter styles, ID Gotira Blackletter is a contemporary take of the historic Blackletter, also sometimes referred to as Old English. Modern, versatile, while not losing it's classic touch, it's also equipped with multi-language support and works best for headlines, body text, branding, packaging and posters.

This typeface was inspired by milk sherbet, which is enjoyed cold on a hot summer day. Rounded shapes and soft stroke endings make the typeface look cute. Heavy works great for headlines with its extra-heavy stroke weight and size, while Regular and Light are best for body text.

Aye, me lovelies, this be Scurvy Dog, a grand font! The letters were etched into a dead man's chest with a blunt rapier, pickled in brine and covered in spew. Ye could be using this crafty penmanship for yer logs or writing yer dear ol' mothers a letter.

Gros is a handwritten font with a raw texture and consisting of all uppercase letters. If you want the writing to stand out, bold, very bold, giving your design a very strong impression and attract attention, Gros is perfect for your design needs. Highlight your designs with Gros!

The Tecn@ Narrow family was designed so that its characters are legible and easy to interpret in any writing and where space saving is necessary; among them, the descriptive memory of plans or instructions, for example. Tecn@ Narrow complements the Tecn@ Background Light, Dark Square & Triangle font family.

Another stencil font? Oh, yes. Circular trip time of bus number 17 is so long and designer has one relaxation: look over the letters in the bus. So many tables with bus stop names in it! And now you can write it yourself - enjoy new Marshrut Stencil typeface.

This font has been derived from different transformations of the moon transcending into different moods which affect the world. A full moon can cause human beings to be aggressive. While a new moon is a good time for new beginnings. This font can function as headings and subheadings.

Carlomango is a typeface designed by Ricardo Rousselot. It maintains the characteristics of the Carolingian script while preserving legibility. It stands out for the realism of its strokes, which look as if they are handwritten, bringing freshness and authenticity to its applications. Carlomagno is a Trademark of BauerTypes SL

ancientos is a font inspired by ancient writings, transporting you to the past that is amazing and full of beauty and strong character. This font is perfect for use on all historical-themed projects and comes with italic style and opentype features that help designers produce stunning work.

Stereotones is a modern display font and unique style that instantly add power and movement to your projects. Stereotones also have a ligature feature that makes writing more beautiful. Stereotones is very suitable for automotive magazine covers, racing game covers, logos & branding, product design, labels, and so on.

Inline Retro JNL is Art Deco in style, featuring condensed characters and its namesake inline. While not a true revival of a vintage design, the same influences are utilized throughout the font to give it retro appeal. Inline Retro JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Introducing the Milionaria font, which is used for the needs of designers who are looking for characters such as signature writing which is used for logo designs, branding, invitation cards, business cards and so on. This font is inspired by the natural but elegant handwriting style of characters.

Alemoric vintage font is a vintage decorative typeface which is inspired by lettering sign and art. While this font has a victorian touch, it still looks bold and solid. Very suitable for for packaging, headline, logotype, apparel, branding, advertising etc. How to access alternate / ornament ? : https://hanscostudio.com/tutorial/ Enjoy!

Palmilla is a very gestural Sans font that contains 7 fonts (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black as well as a set of dingbats, it is perfect for informal or children's titles, it contains many Alternatives such as Ligatures, to have more options at the time of writing.

The name Otis arose from an incident in a shopping mall in which, realising my shoelace was undone while on an escalator, I bent down to tie it, became aware of the approaching end, panicked, fell over, and in the process happened to notice the escalator's brand name.

Nuvoletta is the italian name of "speech balloon", its mean a little cloud. In comics world "nuvoletta" it use to write the speeches of characters! I designed this font inspired by comics books. It's really fit also for your awesome fantasy! Nuvoletta is drew letter by letter. Thank you!

Just a hint of grunge in this font, one side fairly clean and one side with subtle grunge. Demigrunge lends itself readily to display, headlines and writing sentences without verbs in them. Just one style in this family. Lots of accented characters and extensive punctuation. Great for goth titles.

Earthquake font was developed for the series of handwriting fonts based on the writing samples of real people. The font delivers natural sincere touch and can magically convert any stupid advertizing text into intimate advice of your good friend. Cyrillic version was developed by Gennady Fridman in 2009.

This gentle script, designed by writing master Georg Salden, is full of grace and vitality. The richness of ideas appear particularly in the curved capital characters. Lower case letters have curved elements primarily at the ascender and descender parts. Daphne Script contains numerous alternate characters and other OpenType features.

Mockerel Vintage font is a vintage decorative typeface which is inspired by lettering sign and art. While this font has a victorian touch, it still looks bold and solid. Very suitable for for packaging, headline, logotype, apparel, branding, advertising etc. How to access alternate / ornament ? : https://hanscostudio.com/tutorial/ *Enjoy!

Mix Stitch, is an embroidery lesson disguised as a font, fit for handmade and DIY themed projects. Can be used to emulate embroidery in images, or as a guide to teach kids how to write. So many uses for this fun font, I don't even know where to begin.

Awely Shiny is a magical handwritten font carefully created with a touch of elegance. This is a beautiful combination of timeless elegance and authentic calligraphy. It features an incredibly classic style, while still keeping a friendly feel. This font is the perfect font for making original and outstanding designs.

Onagri is a handwritten font with a personal touch so as to give an authentic handwritten impression. This font is expected to be suitable for all display needs of posters, flyers, logos, branding projects, titles, quotes, product packaging and all writing that requires stylish text for any background image.

Montern Vintage font is a vintage decorative typeface which is inspired by lettering sign and art. While this font has a victorian touch, it still looks bold and solid. Very suitable for for packaging, headline, logotype, apparel, branding, advertising etc. How to access alternate / ornament ? : https://hanscostudio.com/tutorial/ Enjoy!

NeoScript Pro is a family of typefaces that leads Neoscript Pro Zero, a commercial script writing similar to those used in ads advertising the 40s and 50s, with fine lettering combinations of that time. NeoScript Pro is ideal for composing headlines and subheads and this is supplied four variations.

Here we have a loopy and whimsical font called Wonky Kitten. Its crazy and unstructured form gives this font a mad personality while maintaining an air of innocence. It's perfect to use in book titles, children's and teen branding, as well as type for a poster or canvas.

India Echo was simply derived from doodling on a whiteboard with a dry erase marker. The aim of the exercise was to create a string of writing that looked foreign enough to be an alien script, angular enough to appear to be futuristic, and familiar enough to be legible.

Helion is a font designed by Ethan Dunham that has a sleek sci-fi feel to it. While it appears to be monocase, many of the lower case letters are different, though the x-height equals the cap height. You can use this to add variation to your headlines.

Lightning font was developed for the series of handwriting fonts based on the writing samples of real people. The font delivers natural sincere touch and can magically convert any stupid advertising text into intimate advice of your good friend. Cyrillic version was developed by Gennady Fridman in 2009.